History VideoGame / Helltaker

** [[spoiler: The secret ending is accessed by moving in a certain pattern on the pentagram rug in the epilogue, which opens a portal to the abyss where Beelzebub is trapped. Going through it will make the protagonist trapped too, but Beelzebub assumes AFormYouAreComforableWith and they live HappilyEverAfter]].

* BilingualBonus: "Zdrada" means betrayal in polish, and "Malina" means raspberry. The latter also holds a bottle with a polish label saying "pure vodka" at the end of the game.

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: Judgement is the High Prosecutor of Hell, and Justice is the former High Prosecutor. Also Justice is [[PunnyName blind.]]]]

* HornedHumanoid: Every demon except Cerberus.

* TheDividual: Cerberus, the Triple Demon, are a trio that all look identical and speak as one. The fact that their title refers to them in the singular means they might even be a HiveMind rather than just three very similar identical triplets.

* GamerChick: Malina the Sour Demon really likes turn-based strategy games. They protagonist gets her into his harem by offering to play them with her.
* GeniusBonus: In the Apocryphal [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch Book of Enoch]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel Azazel]] is one of the fallen angels who married humans, fitting for the only angel in the game who joined the Helltaker's harem.

* HintSystem: PlayedForLaughs. You can ask your harem for advice in completing the puzzles, but none of them give very good advice.

* SunglassesAtNight: The protagonist and Justice, the Awesome Demon, both wear sunglassess despite hell being dark and enclosed. {{Lampshaded}} in the epilogue where Justice says she wears them because she's blind, but the other demons have a betting pool about why the protagonist wears his. She bet ten dollars he has [[FrickinLaserBeams laser vision]].

''You woke up one day with a dream. Harem full of demon girls. You've opened the portal in hopes of fulfilling your wildest desires. Hellfire burns through your lungs, death awaits around every corner and everything looks like from a cutesy mobile game. You are in hell.''
-->-- Steam Description

* TokenGoodTeammate: One of the girls added to the protagonist's harem is Azazel the Curious Angel, who is mostly just there to study the demons.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being demons with a [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] color scheme, several of the characters don't really seem all that evil. Even [[FinalBoss Judgement]], the only actively antagonistic one, is really just doing her job by punishing you for your sins, and she can easily be talked into postponing that punishment if she likes you.

* AGlassOfChianti: Lucifer, [=CEO=] of Hell, is always seen holding a glass of red wine, except in the epilogue.

* AnimalisticAbomination: The story's narrator is Beelzebub, the Great Fly, who takes the form of a massive, vaguely
humanoid fly-like monstrosity.

* AffablyEvil: Despite being demons, most of the girls are pretty easy to get along with. Most of them will still kill you if you say the wrong thing.

* AnimalisticAbomination: The story's narrator is Beelzebub, the Great Fly, who takes the form of a massive, vaguely fly-like monstrosity.

* SameSexTriplets: Cerberus is reimagined as a trio of LittleBitBeastly demon triplets.

** Malina the Sour Demon is turned on by turn-based strategy games according to her sister, Zdrada the Bitch Demon.

* UnreliableNarrator: Beelzebub, who narrates the story, brings up the question of whether or not she's telling the truth in her narration at the end of the secret ending and doesn't give a straight answer.

* SunglassesAtNight: The PlayerCharacter and Justice, the Awesome Demon, both wear sunglassess despite hell being dark and enclosed. {{Lampshaded}} in the epilogue where Justice says she wears them because she's blind, but the other demons have a betting pool about why the protagonist wears his. She bet ten dollars he has [[FrickinLaserBeams laser vision]].

* TheDividual: Cerberus, the Triple Demon. The fact that their title refers to them in the singular means they might even be a HiveMind rather than just three very similar identical triplets.
* ExcusePlot: The entire story is that a man decided a demonic harem would be fun, and so he opened a portal to hell so he could achieve that.

* GamerChick: Malina, the Sour Demon, really likes turn-based strategy games. They protagonist gets her into his harem by offering to play them with her.

* LittleBitBeastly: Cerberus, the Triple Demon is a trio of SameSexTriplets with a few dog-like characteristics.
* MercyKill: Zdrada, the Bitch Demon considers killing you to be this if you tell her your harem is mostly just player turn-based strategy games. [[BadEnd Then she kills you]].

** The bad endings, which are more akin to getting a GameOver, are reached by saying the wrong thing to any of the demon girls, who then murder you for various reasons.

* {{Yandere}}: [[HornyDevils Modeus]] is this, and violently assaults you with a sledgehammer if you pick the wrong option.
--> ''They always say that... and then they try to run away. I'll have to break your knees just in case.''

* AnimalisticAbomination: Beelzebub, the Great Fly, takes the form of a massive, vaguely fly-like monstrosity.

* AffablyEvil: Despite being demons, most of the girls are pretty easy to get along with. They will all still kill you if you say the wrong thing.

* ExcusePlot: The entire story is that a man decided a demonic harem would be fun, and so he opened a portal to hell so that he could achieve that.

* AffablyEvil: Despite being demons, most of the girls are pretty easy to get along with.

* GamerChick: Malina, the Sour Demon, really likes turn-based strategy games. One of the options to get her to join the protagonist's harem is to offer to play them with her.
* AGlassOfChianti: Lucifer, [=CEO=] of Hell, is holding a glass of red wine when you first speak to her.

* MultipleEndings: The normal ending is achieved by playing the game normally and speaking to the police at the end of the PlayableEpilogue to deal with whatever legal trouble Cerberus got themselves into. [[spoiler: The secret ending is accessed by moving in a certain pattern on the pentagram rug in the epilogue, which opens a portal to the abyss where Beelzebub is trapped. Going through it will make the protagonist trapped too, but Beelzebub assumes AFormYouAreComforableWith and they live HappilyEverAfter]].

* UnreliableNarrator: Beelzebub, who narrates the story, brings up the question of whether or not she's telling the truth in her narration at the end of the secret ending and doesn't give a straight answer.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: After an entire game of BlockPuzzle, the FinalBoss has no puzzle elements whatsoever, instead requiring you to dodge a series of attacks while destroying the massive chains that occasionally attach themselves to the arena.

* HornyDevils: Modeus, the Lustful Demon is somewhat sex-obsessed, as her title implies.

* SunglassesAtNight: The PlayerCharacter and Justice, the Awesome Demon both wear sunglassess despite hell being dark and enclosed. {{Lampshaded}} in the epilogue where Justice says she wears them because she's blind, but the other demons have a betting pool about why the protagonist wears his. She bet ten dollars he has [[FrickinLaserBeams laser vision]].

[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289310/Helltaker/ Helltaker]] is a free IndieGame about an unnamed man who decides one day to visit hell so he can assemble a harem of demon girls via a series of [[BlockPuzzle block puzzles]] and chocolate pancakes. It takes itself about as seriously as one would expect.

* AnimalisticAbomination: Beelzebub is a massive, vaguely fly-like monstrosity.

* CuteMonsterGirl: All of the demons are fairly attractive women with horns, with the exception of Cerberus, who's instead a trio of LittleBitBeastly girls with dog ears and tails.

* MultipleEndings: [[spoiler: Moving in a certain pattern on the pentagram rug in the epilogue opens a portal to the abyss where Beelzebub is trapped. Going through it will make the protagonist trapped too, but Beelzebub assumes AFormYouAreComforableWith and they live HappilyEverAfter]].

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler: Beelzebub]] in the secret ending.

* SunglassesAtNight: The PlayerCharacter and Justice, the Awesome Demon both wear sunglassess despite hell being dark and enclosed. {{Lampshaded}} in the epilogue where Justice says she wears them because she's blind, but the other demons have a betting pool about why the protagonist wears his. She bet ten dollars he has [[FrickinLaserBeams laser vision]].

* BlackAndRedAndEvilAllOver: All of the demon girls have color schemes that consist primarily of red and black.